MGM to pay $735m to Route 91 shooting victims

Almost two years to the day since the massacre at Las Vegas festival Route 91, global hospitality company MGM Resorts reaches a settlement with victims

News By | 4 October 2019

MGM's Mandalay Bay hotel

Hotel operator MGM Resorts International has reached a settlement of between US$735 million and $800m with the victims and survivors of the 2017 shooting at Route 91 Harvest festival (22,000-cap.) in Las Vegas.

According to Las Vegas law firm Eglet Adams, the final amount of the settlement is dependent on how many claimants come forward.

MGM subsidiary Mandalay Corps owns the Mandalay Bay hotel, from where gunman Stephen Paddock killed 58 and wounded a further 422 people attending the open-air country music…

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